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Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.
Proba-V facts and figures | |
Launch date: | 02:06 GMT on 7 May 2013 (23:06 local time 6 May; 04:06 CEST 7 May) |
Mass: | 140 kg |
Orbit: | Sun-synchronous polar orbit, 820 km altitude, crossing the equator every morning between 10:30 and 11:00 local time |
Instrument: | New version of the Vegetation imager previously flown on the Spot satellites |
Guest technology payloads: | Gallium nitride amplifier incorporated in communication subsystem; Energetic Particle Telescope; SATRAM radiation monitor, ADS-B aircraft signal detector; fibre optic photonics experiment |
Prime contractor: | QinetiQ Space Belgium |
Payload developer: | OIP Sensor Systems |
Ground segment: | Satellite’s mission control centre in Redu, Belgium complemented by a ground station for data reception, and a processing and archiving centre at VITO in Belgium. The exploitation phase of Proba-V will be managed by ESA from ESRIN, ESA’s Earth observation centre in Italy. |
Launcher: | Vega |
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ESA ESEC, the European Space Security and Education Centre, at Redu in Belgium, is a centre of excellence for space cyber security services, home to ESA's Proba mission control centres, the Space Weather Data Centre, the ESA Education Training Centre (hosting permanent facilities dedicated to the training of school teachers and university students within the framework of the ESA Education programme) as well as part of ESA’s ground station network.
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Related links
Prova-V brochure (English)
Prova-V brochure
Proba-V fact sheet (French)
Proba-V fact sheet (Dutch)
Proba-V fact sheet (Italian)
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